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“One was particularly violent and forced me to bark like a dog and wear a leash.”

She is delighted watchdog Ofcom has approved the Corrie plot after some viewers protested it was “too creepy”.

“If Bethany’s ­story means just one teenage girl doesn’t go through what I did, the writers have done their job,” said Lauren.

Lucy Fallon plays Bethany Platt (Image: ITV)

She was in care on Merseyside when first contacted by Lee Lambert, then 26, claiming he got her number from a “group chat” they were part of.

He claimed he was 21 and ran a nightclub called Garlands in Liverpool.

“I was miserable in care but he ­treated me like a princess,” said Lauren.

“Lee made me feel special and bought me expensive gifts. Like Bethany I believed I’d found true love.”

Lee Lambert (Image: SWNS.com)

Two months on, after Lauren had a row with care home staff, Lambert ­offered to let her sleep on his sofa.

She said: “We didn’t have sex but Lee made it clear I should be grateful. Next day I tried to leave but he refused.

“On his laptop was a photo he’d secretly taken of me, uploaded to a porn website and Facebook page, advertising me for sex.

Lauren Hughes (Image: Dave Evitts/SWNS.com)

"I was frozen with fear. Men arrived, paid their money, and did ­unspeakable things that made me cry with pain.”

Lambert filmed Lauren saying she understood her “contractual obligations”. When police saw her profile online they stormed the house.

Lambert, who arrived at Liverpool Crown Court with a nasal feeding tube, was jailed for three years in March 2014 for controlling prostitution for gain and keeping a brothel. He was released after serving half the sentence.